Kevin Wilson Quotes
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I'm a television junkie.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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By the way, there's a place on Hollywood Boulevard where you can get a _____ for twenty bucks.
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I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
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You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.
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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
